Archives for March 2017

It’s hot! Let me begin this post by presenting a stat which Pune residents won’t be proud of. As per a news report, Pune has already witnessed mercury levels soaring till 41 degrees Celsius and we are just at the end of March. The occurrence of these levels after 14 years presents a bleak outlook of the long summers ahead.

One of the recurring grumbling that one would hear about Biryanis is that it is one of those dishes that requires great deal of patience and warrants an extensive list of ingredients and an elaborate preparation.

We are in the mid of March and I can clearly see the mercury soaring to new levels with every passing week. I shudder to think of how nature will unravel itself in the months of April-May, which have been the conventional ‘hot months’ in India.

We came across this recipe in one of the Tarla Dalal cookbooks on South India cuisine. I do not recollect the title but what struck me was a bold assertion by the author that this recipe is so unique and delicious that your guests would ask for the recipe when you serve them this chutney.